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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The Jews forsook the Lord, the fountain of living waters—They changed their gods, worshipped idols, and rejected the prophets.
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Moreover</span> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came to me, saying,
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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 26 (26-29).">when</a> thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land <i>that was</i> not sown.
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Israel <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 28: 36; Isa. 23: 18.">holiness</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Hear ye the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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Neither said they, Where <i>is</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 107: 4.">led</a> us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/7a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jer. 16: 18; TG Pollution.">defiled</a> my <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 9: 3.">land</a>, and made mine heritage an abomination.
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The priests said not, Where <i>is</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  and they that handle the law knew me not: the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shepherds.">pastors</a> also transgressed against me, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophets</a> prophesied by Baal, and walked after <i>things that</i> do not profit.
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&#182; Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and with your children’s children will I plead.
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For pass <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR over to.">over</a> the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
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Hath a nation changed <i>their</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a>, which <i>are</i> yet no gods?  but my people have changed their glory for <i>that which</i> doth not profit.
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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For my people have committed two <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">evils</a>; they have forsaken me the fountain of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Living Water.">living</a> waters, <i>and</i> hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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&#182; <i>Is</i> Israel a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 4: 22 (22-23).">servant</a>?  <i>is</i> he a homeborn <i>slave?</i>  why is he spoiled?
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The young lions roared upon him, <i>and</i> yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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Also the children of Noph and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/16a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE Tahapanhes, in Egypt, in the land of Goshen; Jer. 43: 7 (7-8); Jer. 44: 1.">Tahapanes</a> have broken the crown of thy head.
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">forsaken</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, when he led thee by the way?
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And now what hast thou to do in the way of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 2 (1-2).">Egypt</a>, to drink the waters of Sihor?  or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/18b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the Euphrates.">the</a> river?
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Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reproof.">reprove</a> thee: know therefore and see that <i>it is</i> an evil <i>thing</i> and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and that my fear <i>is</i> not in thee, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts.
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&#182; For of old time I have broken thy yoke, <i>and</i> burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">harlot</a>.
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Yet I had planted thee a noble <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">vine</a>, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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For though thou <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Washing.">wash</a> thee with <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/22b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE alkali; carbonate of soda.">nitre</a>, and take thee much soap, <i>yet</i> thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?  see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: <i>thou art</i> a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
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A wild ass used to the wilderness, <i>that</i> snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?  all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 12.">hope</a>: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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As the thief is <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">ashamed</a> when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
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Saying to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/27a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR wood; i.e. an idol; Jer. 3: 9.">a</a> stock, Thou <i>art</i> my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned <i>their</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 17; Jer. 32: 33; Ezek. 8: 16.">back</a> unto me, and not <i>their</i> face: but in the <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/2/27c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 11: 24 (22-25); D&C 101: 7 (7-9).">time</a> of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
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But where <i>are</i> thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 10: 14 (13-14); 2 Kgs. 3: 13; Prov. 1: 28 (27-28).">gods</a> that thou hast made thee?  let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for <i>according to</i> the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
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Wherefore will ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/29a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB quarrel, contend.">plead</a> with me?  ye all have transgressed against me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastening.">correction</a>: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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&#182; O generation, see ye the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?  a land of darkness?  wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
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Can a maid forget her ornaments, <i>or</i> a bride her attire?  yet my people have <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 15.">forgotten</a> me days without number.
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?  therefore hast thou also taught the wicked <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/33a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB women.">ones</a> thy ways.
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Also in thy skirts is found the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 106: 38; Jer. 19: 4.">blood</a> of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/2/34b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE their clothing.">these</a>.
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Yet thou sayest, Because I am <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 12: 14 (9-15); Alma 21: 6.">innocent</a>, surely his anger shall turn from me.  Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?  thou also shalt be <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/2/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 5 (3, 5).">ashamed</a> of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
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